Rhys Langston, Resident Harebrain
rhyslangston.bsky.social
Rhys Langston, Resident Harebrain
@rhyslangston.bsky.social
Doing too much and doing it well
My 20th project is a rapper’s singer-songwriter album

Pale Black Negative
it is called

Self-produced to the tune of 7 different instruments

Featuring @mike-eagle.bsky.social , Mike Ladd, Andrew Mbaruk, Hymnal

rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/album/pale-b...
June 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"When the Orchestra is Dreaming" featuring Mike Ladd

comes out this Thursday, 5/1/25

The third single from my self-produced album 'Pale Black Negative'

Out 6/11/25
April 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I got 3 shows in LA this week

Tues (today), 2/25
The Stowaway DTLA w/
Aaron Goldberg, Pendleton Ward, Smax

Thurs, 2/27
Melody Lounge w/
Beat Cinema

Sat, 3/1
De La Playa Records
for nahhphet and Dick Chainey's 'Lavender Maze Recitations' release show
February 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reading poems this evening at the Expo Park Library

Rapping raps Friday in Downtown
February 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Missing Persons Retort (Half-Carton Self-Portrait)"
2023
Acrylic, oil stick, spray paint, epoxy resin, canvas board, ceramic, plasticine on wood
12" x 14" x 3"
_________
Something I didn't get digitized until this year

A self-portrait of deferred expectation, in execution and surrounding life
December 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
"Beninese Truck Stop (Libra)"
2024
chrome marker, acrylic, colored pencil on black paper
8.5" x 11"
December 19, 2024 at 6:02 PM
"Half-Orc with Daisy Chain Mail"
2024
acrylic, ink, colored pencil on paper
5.5" x 8.5"
December 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM
"soft power tools"
2024
Ink, watercolor, chrome marker, colored pencil on paper
9"x12"
December 13, 2024 at 5:49 PM
DIY sublimation
December 10, 2024 at 8:06 PM
"3 po' boys" (triptych)
12" x 18"
Acrylic, pencil, oil stick, soft pastel on MDF
December 9, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Excerpt from one of two poems of mine published in Sunflower Station Press' (DIS)HARMONY issue

sunflowerstationpress.com/product/maga...

Grateful to be included
And for this poem to finally get outside of my personal archive
December 8, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Also updated my bio on the evil streaming site
December 6, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Buy my book for Bandcamp Friday

It comes with a digital download of Grapefruit Radio

rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/merch/grapef...

Today I was assigned without warning to help in Pre-K special ed and I need a way out of these situations my work puts me in.

Your purchase helps immensely.
December 6, 2024 at 8:50 PM
"Threefold Still Life"
2022
Graphite, colored pencil, orange juice on paper
8" x 10.5"
________
When drafting the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual, the loose theme was some allusion to citrus (obvious I know)

This went with lyrics to "Blacksmith Django with All the Fingers" prod. by nahhphet
December 3, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Gratis Rain Shadow
December 1, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Seeing the decades on my face today
December 1, 2024 at 12:50 AM
"Gestural Agriculture"
2022
acrylic, marker, colored pencil on paper
___________
The page from the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual beside the written lyrics from the song "In the Suburbs of Babylon", a hypnotic bop regarding postwar partition, in literal and figurative form---
November 29, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Omega 3 Drawing Lookin'-Ass"
2021
Acrylic, Marker, Graphite on Paper
9"x12"
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Another page from my Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual book. This was paired with the lyrics from the song "Marinara in the Marianas" produced by Randal Bravery
November 25, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Freestyle from yesterday
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Double checking my new record's vinyl master
as I design the back cover
and woweeeeeee__________

when this drops
it's over for you fufu asses
November 25, 2024 at 6:33 AM
“Grapefruit Radio Routing Diagram“
2022
Acrylic, Marker on Paper with Digital Edits
8.5”x11”

A page from my Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual, the 88-page book released with my 2022 record Grapefruit Radio

rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/merch/grapef...
November 20, 2024 at 9:51 PM
And yet I finished what feels like the final draft of my full-length poetry manuscript
November 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM